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The Daily Dispatch: July 1, 1861., [Electronic resource], Proclamation of the Governor of Tennessee . (search)
Proclamation of the Governor of Tennessee.
--Gov. Harris, of Tennessee, has issued the following proclamation:
Whereas, By an Act of the General Assembly of the State of Tennessee, passed 6th May, 1861, an election on the 8th day of June, 1861, was held in the several counties of the State, in accordance therewith, upon the Ordinance of Separation and Representation; and also, whereas, it appears from the official returns of said election that the people of the State of Tennessee ha by an overwhelming majority, cast their votes for "Separation," dissolving all political connection with the late United States Government, and adopted the Provisional Government of the Confederate States of America:
Now, therefore, I, Isham G. Harris, Governor of the State of Tennessee, "do make it known and declare all connection by the State of Tennessee with the Federal Union dissolved, and that Tennessee is a free, independent Government, free from all obligation to or connection wit